How many baby Tufted pygmy squirrels are in a litter?
A Tufted pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus whiteheadi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 150 grams (0.33 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Exilisciurus). An adult Tufted pygmy squirrel grows up to a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The tufted pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus whiteheadi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to highland forest in Borneo. The common name of this tiny squirrel refers to its distinctive ear-tufts.Its diet consists mainly of the lichens and mosses which cover the trees it inhabits.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Tufted pygmy squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Gambian sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Baja California rock squirrel weighting only 551 grams
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Daurian ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel weighting only 277 grams
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting around 1.16 kilograms (2.56 lbs)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Cape ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tufted pygmy squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Javan surili
- Allied rock-wallaby
- Spectral tarsier
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Mauritian tomb bat
- Guadalupe fur seal
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- White-tailed deer
Animals with the same weight as a Tufted pygmy squirrel
What other animals weight around 24 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Gracile shrew tenrec weighting 23 grams
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens weighting 25 grams
- Woodland vole weighting 26 grams
- Oligoryzomys arenalis weighting 25 grams
- Grant’s golden mole weighting 22 grams
- Aberdare mole shrew weighting 23 grams
- Myotis vivesi weighting 25 grams
- Pleasant bolo mouse weighting 27 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting 22 grams
- Lesser long-nosed bat weighting 22 grams
Animals with the same size as a Tufted pygmy squirrel
Also reaching around 8.3 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Jamaican flower bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern ghost bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rudd’s mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jamaican fruit bat gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ash-grey mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- São Paulo grass mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Olive grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cotton mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)